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The first long-distance street, which got here into use around 3500 BCE, spanned 1,500 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, however was not paved and was only partially maintained. In around 2000 BCE, the Minoans on the Greek island of Crete constructed a fifty-kilometer (thirty-mile) street main from the palace of Gortyn on the south facet of the island, by way of the mountains, to the palace of Knossos on the north side of the island. According to archaeologists, the wheel was invented around 4000 BCE in all probability independently and nearly concurrently in Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq), the Northern Caucasus and Central Europe. Estimates on when this will likely have occurred range from 5500 to 3000 BCE with most consultants putting it nearer to 4000 BCE. The oldest artifacts with drawings depicting wheeled carts date from about 3500 BCE; nonetheless, the wheel might have …